Identification and characterization of a Chlamydia trachomatis early operon encoding four novel inclusion membrane proteins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 753-765

  Scidmore Carlson, Marci A ^a   Shaw, Edward I ^a   Dooley, Cheryl A ^a   Fischer, Elizabeth R ^b   Hackstadt, Ted ^a  

^a Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL VACUOLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERNALIZATION; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; OPERON; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACUOLES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0032775116     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01523.x     Document Type: Article

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